Slogan in the Spanish political discourse: cognitive, linguistic and pragmatic dimension

Linguistic Characteristics of Nouns Representing the Concept of “Power” in American Political Discourse

The article analyzes the linguistic nature of some nuclear lexemes (power, control, authority, influence) verbalizing the basic concept of the English-language political discourse – the concept of “Power”. The paper reveals the structure of the concept, its conceptual features, as well as the main characteristics of the concept representatives at the language and functional levels.

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Doing Catalan Spanish: Pragmatic Resources and Discourse Strategies in Ways of Speaking Spanish in Barcelona

the translators agency and ideological manipulation in translation: the case of political texts in translation classes in iran

در این تحقیق به نقش واسطه ای مترجم در ایجاد تغییرات ایدئولوژیک در ترجمه متون سیاسی پرداخته شده است. بدین منظور محقق متنی سیاسی در خصوص ادعاهای آمریکا در مورد برنامه هسته ای ایران را انتخاب کرد. این متن از سایت spacewar.com انتخاب شد که دارای ایدئولوژی مغرضانه در مورد برنامه هسته ای ایران است. سپس یک گروه 30 نفره از دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشدرشته مترجمی زبان انگلیسی دانشگاه شیخ بهایی انتخاب شدند. ا...

Pragmatic expressions in cross-linguistic perspective

This  paper  focuses  on  some  pragmatic  expressions  that  are  characteristic  of  informal  spoken English, their possible equivalents in some other languages, and their use by EFL learners from different  backgrounds.  These  expressions,  called  general  extenders  (e.g.  and  stuff,  or something), are shown to be different from discourse markers and to exhibit variation in form, funct...